Documentation and Publication of Making-Process https://vimeo.com/345269854?fl=pl&fe=sh The Indian Patent Stone (IPS) was, until the 1990, omnipresent flooring type across India. Made by mixing metal-oxides with a combination of grey and white cement, the labour-intensive floor is losing its appeal in the mainstream construction industry. The IPS documentation by […]
Redesign for a New Edition A collection of Charles Correa’s essays, A Place in the Shade is a seminal book authored and edited by Correa as an assimilation of a lifetime of writing. The texts in the book touch upon critical issues that were central to Charles Correa’s ideas on architecture, urbanism and housing. The […]
PREVIOUS EDITIONS The Drawing Board is an initiative by Rohan Builders and Mindspace Architects that frames a competition annually for students of architecture to respond to real design challenges in specific locations, encouraging them to engage with questions of context, community, heritage and the built environment. Since its inception in 2016, the initiative has brought […]
A research, listing and documentation initiative that attempts to chronicle the rich history of modern architecture in India. MORE AT THINKMATTER.IN […]
Digitising and Archiving of a Historic Document. In 1985, a landmark exhibition on ‘The Architecture of India’ curated by Charles Correa and commissioned by Pupul Jaykar travelled the world. The exhibition was accompanied by a printed catalog edited by Charles Correa and a multi-screen projections system authored by Imtiaz Dharker. The exhibition and […]